Motion for continuance denied.
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Continuance
//kənˈtɪnjuəns//
Synonyms for "continuance" (118 found)
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7 translations across 4 languages.
Bulgarian
2 entries- отлагане noun (Postponement of a legal proceeding)
- продължение noun (The action of continuing)
Dutch
1 entries- verdaging noun (Postponement of a legal proceeding)
French
1 entries- continuation noun (The action of continuing)
Occitan
3 entries- continuacion noun (The action of continuing)
- continuïtat noun (The action of continuing)
- perseguida noun (The action of continuing)
Sample sentences
11 total sentences available.
Thus the very points in which they differed seemed, in some measure, to ensure the continuance of their mutual affection.
Source: tatoeba (7760635)
While some outsiders have called him a king, he is seen within the Borana clan as a leader who assures the continuance of the traditional Gadaa system.
Source: tatoeba (12117781)
Now stands the Brere like a lord alone, / Puffed up with pryde and vaine pleasaunce. / But all this glee had no continuaunce: / For eftsones winter gan to approche; / The blustering Boreas did encroche, / And beate upon the solitarie Brere; / For nowe no succoure was seene him nere.
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